Font-family property
The CSS font-family property specifies a preferred typeface or ordered sequence of fallback typefaces for rendering text.
Web Design Playground
A CSS property that specifies the preferred font family or ordered list of font families for text rendering.
- How it is used
- Assigns a typeface or fallback family list to text elements.
- How deep it goes
- Explains generic fonts, system-font syntax, ordered stacks, hosted fonts, and @font-face application without detailing font-file creation.
- Examples
- Uses h3 and p generic-family rules, a Times New Roman–Georgia–serif stack, Lato hosted-font CSS, and Bree Serif @font-face CSS.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via CSS to choose generic, installed, hosted, or self-hosted typefaces with sensible fallbacks.
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Tiny CSS Projects
The CSS font-family property specifies the typeface or ordered list of typefaces used for text.
- How it is used
- Sets typefaces for page themes and individual headings, cards, and form fields.
- How deep it goes
- Explains imported families, generic fallbacks, inheritance, and shorthand through CSS examples; does not examine font-rendering internals.
- Examples
- Uses a newspaper theme, hotel cards, a checkout cart, and text and email inputs.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via Google Fonts and CSS to choose families, supply fallbacks, and match form controls to page typography.
Web Design Playground, Second Edition
The CSS font-family property specifies the typeface or sequence of fallback typefaces used to render an element.
- How it is used
- Sets an element’s typeface and supplies fallbacks for unavailable fonts.
- How deep it goes
- Explains generic, system, and hosted font choices with CSS rules, naming guidance, and fallback ordering.
- Examples
- Demonstrates sans-serif headings, serif paragraphs, Verdana div text, an Optima–Calibri stack, and hosted Lato paragraphs.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via CSS to choose generic, installed, or hosted typefaces with usable fallback stacks.
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Related concepts
- style propertykind of · A style property is a named setting or interface attribute that specifies or exposes a presentation characteristic of an element or view.
- generic fontuses · A generic font family is a CSS keyword representing a broad category of typefaces that browsers can select as a fallback.
- h3 elementconfigures · An h3 element is an HTML heading element representing the third hierarchical level in a document or section.
- paragraph elementconfigures · An HTML paragraph element is a p element representing a distinct block of related text.
- font familyconfigures · A font family is a named collection of related fonts or typefaces sharing a visual design while differing in styles, weights, or other attributes.
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